Richey Edwards Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Imagine going from being practically guaranteed to win most seats in Scotland to being almost obliterated in 2015. What a minter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loondave1 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 A pro independence Loon Dave Labour leader would get my vote. Dinnae push the fantasy too far. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry94 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 I saw Leonard speak in person the other week and he was very very intent to try and get across that he understood devolution and address the whole Scottish Water blunder. He doesn't really have the same baggage previous leaders have had and I think he could be a reasonable canvass to do better (almost by default) with a little bit of competence added. His backroom team seem ridiculously amatuer though. Lesley Brennan as chief of staff and then the same failures reshuffled in the cabinet doesn't scream intelligence. Maybe, he'll get a wee purge going a year or so in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 1 hour ago, harry94 said: I saw Leonard speak in person the other week and he was very very intent to try and get across that he understood devolution and address the whole Scottish Water blunder. He doesn't really have the same baggage previous leaders have had and I think he could be a reasonable canvass to do better (almost by default) with a little bit of competence added. His backroom team seem ridiculously amatuer though. Lesley Brennan as chief of staff and then the same failures reshuffled in the cabinet doesn't scream intelligence. Maybe, he'll get a wee purge going a year or so in. Yeah and I'm very keen to get across I'm a multi millionaire with a full head of hair. Except I'm not. He doesn't understand devolution (iwatched a ppb a fortnight ago where he was talking about zero hours contract - employment law is not devolved, largely thanks to labour btw) and did not know Scottish water is public. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 I saw Leonard speak in person the other week and he was very very intent to try and get across that he understood devolution and address the whole Scottish Water blunder. He doesn't really have the same baggage previous leaders have had and I think he could be a reasonable canvass to do better (almost by default) with a little bit of competence added. His backroom team seem ridiculously amatuer though. Lesley Brennan as chief of staff and then the same failures reshuffled in the cabinet doesn't scream intelligence. Maybe, he'll get a wee purge going a year or so in. Nah. He's a dick 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 (edited) BiFab.... It seems that renewables* contracts go out for competitive tender and they go abroad. (paraphrasing)..... Scottish jobs for Scottish workers Gordon Brown didn't get away with this sort of nonsense and unless he is advocating for a hard brexit, neither should Leonard. *what's so unique about renewables in the context of trade? Is he hinting that we re-open Longannet? Edited February 13, 2018 by sophia HiFab BiFab 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob the tank Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 BiFab.... It seems that renewables* contracts go out for competitive tender and they go abroad. (paraphrasing)..... Scottish jobs for Scottish workers Gordon Brown didn't get away with this sort of nonsense and unless he is advocating for a hard brexit, neither should Leonard. *what's so unique about renewables in the context of trade? Is he hinting that we re-open Longannet? The national grid exorbitant access charges for their Scottish region shut longannet, so will Leonard mitigate this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 I watched a documentary with my students last week called The Holyrood Files about the building of the Scottish Parliament, and the politics that surrounded it. SLab had Donald Dewar, Henry McLeish and Jack McConnell. Watching it, I just thought "Jesus, these guys used to be quite good". What the hell happened to them? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Scottish Labour is a microcosm of the plot of the film Idiocracy, for some reason. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Must’ve been some class editing to make McConnell look good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 3 hours ago, scottsdad said: I watched a documentary with my students last week called The Holyrood Files about the building of the Scottish Parliament, and the politics that surrounded it. SLab had Donald Dewar, Henry McLeish and Jack McConnell. Watching it, I just thought "Jesus, these guys used to be quite good". What the hell happened to them? It’s called ‘false memory syndrome’. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 I watched a documentary with my students last week called The Holyrood Files about the building of the Scottish Parliament, and the politics that surrounded it. SLab had Donald Dewar, Henry McLeish and Jack McConnell. Watching it, I just thought "Jesus, these guys used to be quite good". What the hell happened to them? Well Dewar died, McLeish had a think tank and McConnell converted to Buddhism 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Not sure where to put this but as this thread is vaguely Scottish Labour I guess it makes the most sense:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-43491894 Quote The other accuser made a number of claims including that Mr Dempster "chased me around his shop with an air freshener saying I smelled of curry". Not to worry, some diversity training will fix that right up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Leonard spent his FMQs moaning about employment contracts on Network Rail despite the fact that it's reserved. Useless clown. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Leonard spent his FMQs moaning about employment contracts on Network Rail despite the fact that it's reserved. Useless clown. Saw that on the BBC. I quite enjoyed his awkward shuffling in his seat as the FM deployed the Telt Cannon in typical fashion.Has he reached Dugdale levels of shite yet? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob the tank Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Saw that on the BBC. I quite enjoyed his awkward shuffling in his seat as the FM deployed the Telt Cannon in typical fashion.Has he reached Dugdale levels of shite yet? Yes he has, and is on the way to being the biggest joke of a leader that the English labour party in Scotland has ever had, and the bar was set really low anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williemillersmoustache Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 (edited) His face when it turned out that the FM had actually looked into the question from the previous week was brilliant in the FMQ piece on the BBC Being able to think on your rhetorical feet is surely an utterly basic part of being a politician - but he was practically mouthing the words "oh f**k". There is a long shot during his question that showed Kezia Dugdale slumped in her seat up the back and Ian Gray drinking his water like it was straight vodka - if those two think you're doing badly, it's not looking good. Given that his researchers will know fine well what is devolved and what is reserved, I am assuming that he is just taking Corbyn/Unite lines and running with them regardless - as they will still get on the news and in the press. Edited March 23, 2018 by Swello 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colkitto Posted March 23, 2018 Author Share Posted March 23, 2018 No new leader bounce for Labour as they lose Penicuik by-election to the SNP. Labour came 3rd behind the Tories 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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